CompTIA Security+ Contract Job Trends in the City of London

CompTIA Security+
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.033%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £581 - -
25th Percentile £589 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - £175
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.58%
75th Percentile £674 - £188
90th Percentile £684 - -
Central London median daily rate £630 - £175
% change year-on-year - - -58.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 439 507 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.04% 24.09% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 310 363
10th Percentile £328 £363 £342
25th Percentile £448 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £657 £691
90th Percentile £738 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £21.80 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.75 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +50.00% -58.26%
75th Percentile £64.66 - £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +27.70% +50.00% -58.26%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CompTIA Security+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CompTIA Security+ in the City of London

CompTIA Security+
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CompTIA Security+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) STIX
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (50.00%) Red Team
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) ISSMP
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft